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War Quotes by Winston Churchill
- We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall…
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won…
- When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till…
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to…
- In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so,…
- No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
- In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric…
- It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
- May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange…
- Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their…
- Air power may either end war or end civilization.
- The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
- Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he…
- To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with…
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